Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 105, Decatur, Adams County, 4 May 1959 — Page 1

Vol. LVII. No. 105.

Light Voting Predicted In City Primary

A light vote is expected Tuesday in Decatur’s Democratic mayoralty race, the only election race in the primary. Three Democrats, the incumbent Robert D. Cole, Mrs. Mary C. Morgan, and Adrian Wemhoff, will fight it out between 6 a.m. and 6 p.m. Decatur time for the Democratic domination. AlSo listed on the Democratic ballot will be the full ticket, which is otherwise unopposed. All three candidates have waged a vigorous campaign which included house-to-house All persons who boted for half of the Democratic ticket last fall may call for Democratic ballots. Dr. Harry H. Hebble, Democratic county chairman, explained. There will be no Republican primary this spring, as no Republicans filed for office, except Harry Hershey, who was disqualified, since he filed for office before he registered to vote. The Republicans still have until September 1 i to fill their ticket. John M. Doan, former mayor, has been appointed city chairman. Bars and taverns will be closed during the hours that the polls are Annual Safely Check Os Autos Underway The annual May vehicle safetycheck is expected to get underway in Decatur within the next few days in co-operation with the Indiana state police and the local authorities. Check lanes have not been established on any of the city streets, but are expected to be maintained and announced in the near future. The primary purpose of the vehicle safety-check is to detect equipment defects and to have them subsequently corrected for safe driving. Any vehicles rejected will be turned down only on a basis of mechanical failure. But. motorists will be advised at the check lane that Indiana law requires that a certificate of registration be contained within the vehicle and that the driver must be able to show ■ proof that he had a valid driver’s license. The program began May 1, and will continue throughout the month of May. Motorists are urged to get their vehicles safety-checked as soon as possible. Owners of cars in safe driving condition will be awarded official “Circle of Safety” stickers for their windshields. Aiding local authorities in tho 10-point vehicle safety-check is Zintsmaster’s Motor Sales. L. R. Zintsmaster, owner, stated today that persons may have their vehicles checked at Zintsmaster Motors and are urged to stop for the safety-check. James Borders, local city police chief, said today that any other garage who cares to help in the safety-check, may pick up the windshield stickers at the city police station.

Truman Asks Repeal Os Third-Term Ban

WASHINGTON (UPD—Former President Harry S. Truman today called for repeal of the ban on a presidential third term as a “bad” constitutional amendment. He said it was devised to “get Roosevelt” and is now ham stringing President Eisenhower. Truman said the ban was “a bill of goods” sold to the country by “Roosevelt haters.” Truman told a Senate Judiciary subcommittee that he has “no personal ax to grind” in die hearings on repeal of the 22nd Amendment adopted after the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt who was elected four times. The amendment was initiated by the Republican controled 80th Congress. Truman noted in a terse 3% page prepared statement that he himself is still eligible to run for a third term. "Out of the 175,000,000 people in this country,” he said, “Lam the only one to whom the amendment does not apply—the only one who could be elected as many times as he could get enough votes.” Truman was a witness before the Senate subcommittee on con- . stitutional amendments headed by Sen. Estes Kefauver (DTennJ. Kefauver similarly condemned

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open on primary election day. Results are expected early Tuesday evening from the balloting, and will be available in the Decatur Daily Democrat office, or by calling 3-2172, the Democrat-Citi-zens Telephone company telephone news service. There are 4,411 registered voters in the 11 Decatur precincts, according to a count of the names on the voters’ lists. Anyone who registered this past winter in Decatur is eligible to vote; anyone who voted last fall or last spring is also registered, and eligible to vote. Heavy Rains Trigger Flood In East Texas United Press International Eighteen-inch rains triggered deadly floods in eastern Texas Sunday and tornado-dotted thunderstorms lashed the Plains and Midwest. The drenching rains were blamed for at least four deaths, three of them in Texas floods and one in Michigan when a cabin was washed down an embankment on the shore' of Lake Superior. Toronadoes were reported near Leedey, Okla., and Formoso, Kan., but apparently caused no injuries and only minor property damage. The twisters struck from a squall line which broke a may ‘heat wave” in much of the West. In the East, the forecast today was for continued hot weather with readings in the 80’s and 90’s. No letup was seen in the east Texas rains which ripped open dams, closed highways and turned the area into a sea of mud. Rains up to 11 inches were common around" Henderson, Tex., and up to 18 inches of water was reported at Lake Cherokee, north-' east of Henderson. High water and stalled cars blocked highways. One man was believed drowned when a car carrying five Jacksonville. Tex., Negroes was swept from a bridge near Jacksonville by 16-inch deep flood waters. A dam east of Jacksonville burst under the pressure of the heavy rains, draining a 10G-acre lake behind the dam. Two breaks occurred in a dam near Henderson, draining a 35-acre lake. The hot weather in the East set a record at Columbus, Ohio, for the second straight day Sunday when the mercury hit 89, topping the former high Os 87 set in 1938. Saturday's top of 88 also was a record for the city. Elsewhere, Chicago had an 88 Louisville 91, Atlanta 86, Washington 83, Miami 83, and Kansas City 80.

the two term limitation on grounds it blunts the “quality of flexibility” in the constitution. Sen. Thomas E. Hennings CD Mo.) also urged repeal of the amendment. Before appearing at the Senate hearing, Truman told newsmen he is anxious to tell the House Committee on UnAmerican activities to its face why he thinks it is “the most unAmerican thing in the country.” But, during his morning walk, he told reporters the House committee will have to wait a while. Truman was exempted from the ban because he was in the White House at the time it was enacted in 1947. Nevertheless, he declined to run for reelection in 1952. Chairman Emanuel Cellar (D N.Y.) of the House Judiciary Committee, author of one of several measures to repeal the 22nd Amendment said recently he considered the matter dead because he could not whip up any interest. Former President Herbert Hoover was invited to give his ideas on the amendment at the House hearings. He sent regrets but no statement. President Eisenhower has said he doesn’t think much of the third term ban.

City Primary Elections In State Tuesday Indianapolis <upd— Hoosier eity-dwellers will go to the polls Tuesday to nominate candidates for municipal offices subject to an off-year election next November. Voters in 108 communities having the official status of cities were eligible to cast ballots. But in some of the cities, the Republicans and Democrats had single slates of candidates who will be nominated automatically Without the necessity of holding an election. In some cities, there Were Republican primaries but no Democratic primaries because of lack of contests. In others, there were Democratic but no Republican. Polls will be open for 12 hours from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. There was no indication of what the total vote would be. Registration was poor to good, depending on how much local interest had been created, chiefly in mayor races, ——_ —— ‘ 471 Mayor Candidates The vote was expected to be heavy in cities where there were spirited contests, but extremely light in others where no major races were run or where favorites and incumbents had only token opposition. There were 471 candidates for 216 nominations for mayor around the state. Democrats had a slight edge in number of mayor -candidates, possibly because they control about three-fourths of the Hoosier cities as the result of a sweep in the 1955 municipal elections. The November election will be the first opportunity for Republicans to test their strength in Indiana since Democratic candidates won a landslide triumph in the 1958 congressional election and sent Vance Hartke of Evansville to the U.S. Senate with a huge plurality of nearly 250,000 votes. Many of the primary battles shaped up as struggles between regular party organizations and “maverick” groups or candidates. One ot those situations prevailed in Indianapolis, the state’s largest city, where William Sharp, an or-ganization-backed candidate, was favored on the Republican side and Mayor Carhles Boswell on the Democratic ticket. 14 Seek Mayer Chair Biggest fields of candidates were found in Gary and Peru. In each city, 14 persons were running for mayor. Nearly four out of five present mayors sought renomination. About one-third of the office-seek-ing incumbents were unopposed and won a free ride into the fall election. _ Weather-wise, it promised to be one of the warmest election days in Hoosier history. Temperatures in the mid and high 80s and possibly the 90s were forecast, and thundershowers were expected on a scattered basis in the afternoon. The weather, however, may not play an important part in the vote volume, unless it rains most of the day. This was a vote for urbanites only, and farmers finding the day favorable for spring chores won’t affect the ballot total. Mrs. Pearl Beam Is Taken By Death Mrs. Pearl Beam, of 409 East Washington Blvd., Fort Wayne, died Saturday morning at Parkview memorial hospital in that city following a month’s illness. Mrs. Beam was a native of Willshire, O„ and had resided in Fort Wayne for 50 years. Surviving are a son, Carl E. Beam of Fort Wayne: a daughter, Mrs. lenn Lentzer of Fort Wayne; three grandchildren; one greatgrandchild, * and four' brothers, Frank Strickler of Decatur, Odis Strickler of Willshire, Earl Strickler of Washington, D. C., and Ben Strickler of Portland, Ore. Funeral services will be conducted at 1 p. m. Tuesday at the D. O. McComb & Sons funeral home, the Rev. Dr. Thurman B. Morris officiating. The body will then be taken to the Willshire United Brethren church for services at 2 p. m. Burial will be in the Willshire cemetery. INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy and continued warm this afternoon, tonight * and Tuesday with a few scattered afternoon and night thundershowers. Low tonight in the 60s. High Tuesday 85 to 92. Sunset today 7:41 p.m. Sunrise Tuesday 5:41 a.m. Outlook for Wednesday: A little cooler north, continued warm with scattered thunderstorms south. Lows upper 50s north to upper 60s south. Highs upper 70s north to low 90s south.

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Adams Central Team I Third In National Adams Central won third place in the national 4-H division land judging contest Friday at Oklahoma City, falling a mere eight points from the winning total of Jay county’s Pennville. The Adams county team, however, won the north central states regional trophy against 12 states that competed. Martin Watson, agricultural teacher and coach, said today that his team won a total of $135 and three trophies at the national contest sponsored by television station WKY-TV, Oklahoma City. Central’s Habegger Second Loren Habegger, of Adams Central, took second place in the individual scoring, 'winning $25 and a trophy, while teammate Clair Inniger finished seventh. Inniger won slo,for his effort. The local team bested entries : from North Dakota, South Dakota, Michigan, lowa, Nebraska Kapsasi ; Illinois, Ohio, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Missouri, and Indiana for the north central trophy and the $25 prize. Three Hoosier Teams Score A third Indiana team. Miami county, took fifth place in the land judging contest, finishing behind a Kansas entry. The point total of the five high scorers was Pennville 536; New Mexico 531; Adams Central 528; Kansas 520, and Miami county 518. The third place finish earned them a $75 prize and a trophy. Teams from 28 states and 12 foreign countries competed in the na- i tional contest. Watson said that team members, Phillip Gerber, Roy Mazelin, Inniger and Habegger arrived in Oklahoma City in time to practice Wednesday and Thursday before the judging on Friday. The trip was sponsored by the Krick-Tyn-dall Tile company, of Decatur. '

ForeseeJTough Stand By Russia At Parley

WASHINGTON (UPD — Diplomatic authorities said today they expected Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko to take a tough position in die initial stages of the Geneva Conference beginning May 11. They said they hoped, however, that the Russians subsequently would moderate their stand enough to make possible an agreement on fruitful areas for discussion at a summit conference. The Soviet newspaper Izvestia’s attack on the Western Allies re- , ported package plan for German unification came as no great sur- . prise to authorities here. They had not expected the Rus sians at this point to publicly an nounce abandonment of their longstanding opposition to han ‘ dinig German reunification on ' Western terms. Best On Their Willingness However, the feeling in official They had not nepected the Russians, faced witn a united West ern front at Geneva, would recog nize that their hopes for a sum mit meeting rested on their will ingness to discuss the proposals of the Western Allies. American officials showed no' desire to debate the subjects of Berlin, Germany and European security in public before the Ge neva talks begin. U.S. officials said they will judge Russia’s sincerity to a con siderable extent by its willingness i to negotiate secretly at Geneva ’ and not use the conference as an other propaganda sounding board. |

Mother Os Decatur Pastor Dies Saturday Mrs. Frank Sparks, 82, mother of the Rev. F. Hazen Sparks, pastor of the First Methodist church of Decatur, died Saturday at her home in Sully, lowa. Death followed an extended illness. Rev. and Mrs. Sparks left Saturday for Sully. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Suly Community church. The body was removed to the Johnson funeral home at Newton, la. Hospital Expenses Higher For April An exceptionally large number of bills raised total expenses at the Adams county memorial hospital to $30,137.10 for the month of April, reducing the cash balance $1,483.07, Thurman I. Drew, hospital manager, said today. IS#. Deposits for April were $28,654.03, and the operating cash balance April 1 was $9,395.94, for a total of $38,049.87. 'Die payroll for the month was $17,173.79, and bills were $12,963.31, for a total of $30,137.10. The total usually runs about $25,000 to $26,000. Certain repairs, insurance, and other costs which were paid this month raised the total. A total of 201 patients Were admitted, seven died and 196 were dismissed, leaving 48 adults in th/ hospital on May 1. Os the 45 new births, none died and 50 were dismissed from the hospital, leaving four in the hospital on Mav 1 as compared with nine on April 1, Os the hew births, 28 were boys and 17 were girls. Also treated were 224 outpatients in the x-ray, laboratory and out-patient surgery rooms.

Conferred With Dulles Secretary of State Christian A. Herter reported to his old chief, John Foster Dulles, Sunday on the package proposal to be hand ed Russia at the Geneva talks. Herter and two aides conferred with Dulles in the former secre tary’s room at Walter Reed Medi cal Center. Dulles, now a consult ant to President Eisenhower, -was briefed on last week’s Paris meet ing of the Western foreign minis ters. radio-television report to the nation Thursday night on the results of the Paris talks and Allied strategy for the Geneva meeting. He planned to leave Friday for Geneva. Confirmation Rites Here Tuesday Night More than 200 Catholics will .receive the sacrament of Confirmation at special services Tuesday at 1:30 p.m. in St. Mary’s church. Decatur, with the Most Rev. Leo A. Pursley, bishop of the Fort Wayne diocese, as confirming prelate. Bishop Pursley will speak briefly to the confirmees and their sponsors after s the confirmation services. Confirmants and sponsors •will assemble at the church prior to 7:30 for last minute seating in- | structions.

Senate Opens Hearings On Foreign Aid WASHINGTON (UPI) — President Eisenhower’s $3,900,000,000 foreign aid program began its rough ride through the Senate today. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee called Undersecretary of State C. Douglas Dillon as the first witness at its public hearings. The House Foreign Affairs Committee planned to complete its aid hearings this week. As the Senate inquiry opened, Chairman J. William Fulbright (D-Ark.) of the Foreign Relations Committee claimed “a lot of support” for the principle of his proposal to greatly increase overseas development loans while scaling down military assistance. But he conceded that many lawmakers who favored the principle of his diea were reluctant to vote the $1,500,000,000 he recommended for the development loan fund for each of the next five years. Rep. Wayne L. Hays (D-Ohio), a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, urged a $200,000,000 increase in development loans. But he also called for a $500,000,000 cut in military aid, meaning an overall reduction of $300,000,000 in the President's program. Other congressional news: Defense: Defense Secretary Neil rt. McElroy and Gen. Nathan F. Twining, chairman of the Joint ! Chiefs bf Staff, were called before a Senate appropriations subcommittee for. questioning on Eisenhower’s defense budget. Security: Lloyd Wright, head of the now - defunct Committee on Government Security, testified at a House post office & civil service committee hearing on a bill to extend the federal loyalty-security program to all government work- ■ ers. . . In developments Sunday: i Labor: -Sens. Kenneth B. Keat- ■ ing (R-N.Y.), Mike Mansfield (D- --, Mont.), Allen J. Ellender (D-La.), ■ Hubert H. Humphrey (D-Minn.) and Richard L. Neuberger (D- - Ore.) gave full or quaoified praise -for the Senate-passed labor re--1 form bill. ; Farm: Sen. Stuart Symington 5 (D-Mo.) said that by the middle f of next year Agriculture Secre- > tary Ezra T. Benson would have i spent more money than his fouri teen predecessors combined. Delays Ruling On ■ Pinball Machines LEBANON, Ind. (UPI) —Judge John L. Niblack said today he will delay for about® two weeks a ruling on whether pinball machines that record free games are legal in Indiana. The ruling is jn a specific Indianapolis test case sent here on a venue change. But on the outcome hinges the legality of Hasbrook anti-gambling law as it relates to free-play pinball devices. Many counties have campaigned against the machines in recent • weeks, and Niblack’s ruling probably will determine whether the machines disappear from the Hoosier scene. Niblack is a Marion County circuit judge who sat as special judge ■ today in Boone Circuit Court and heard final arguments in the test test case of the Hasbrook antigaming act. ' He explained that “there have I been so many news stories and editorials about this case that I 1 want to let the clamor subside be- • fore I rule;’’ i “I don’t want to give a snap t judgment in any case,” Niblack 3 said, “but in addition I want to . wait because there has been quite C a lot of trial of this case in news- ’ papers. “I think it will be at least a couple of weeks before the ruling ’ comes. I will return to Lebanon ’ to give the decision.” 1 The suit which set off the present • ease was filed by pinball operar tors in 1956 in Marion County in a superior court for which Niblack then was judge. John G. Tinder, then Marion County prosecutor, had seized two pinball machines ■which gave free plays as reward to successful players. Niblack issued a temporary in- • junction which prevented the fur- - ther seizure of the free-play mat chines and the injunction was made - permanent by a special judge la- • ter. Tinder appealed to the Indiana » Appellate Court apd lost, then turned to the State Supreme Court. By this time the 1957 General " Assembly had amended the coni troversial 1955 Hasbrook gaming ! law and the state’s top court, in ’ its 4-1 rejection of the prosecutor's • appeal, pointed out this would make a difference.

Race Violence Stirring South

Winston Churchill Enroute To States LONDON (UPI) — Sir Winston Churchill respectifully raised his hat to an “honor guard” of three small boys in sailor suits and then took off today by Comet jet liner for a visit with President Eisenhower in Washington. The boys, children of Lady Christian Hesketh of Northampton, were driven to London Airport by their mother especially so they could see the great man. As the aged statesman walked slowly towards the BOAC plane he spotted Alexander, 8, Robert, 7, and John, 6, drawn up in a line. Sir Winston smiled and with elaborate care raised his hat. Die boys saluted smartly. “We wanted to see Sir Winston because we know he’s a famous man and that he is going to Washington for talks with President Eisenhower,” Alexander said. The flight was due in New York at 4:50 p.m. e.d.t. The visit, at the invitation of the

President, was pegged a “social ; call,” but British political sources i hoped the sharp-minded political veteran would reassure Eisenhower on British East-West policies. Churchill, who had to turn down ed on the aims and policies of the Macmillian government and world affairs are bound to come into even the friendliest talks at the White House. There have been some fears that Britain planned major changes in its cold war approach to the Russians but British diplomats insist there is no appeasement in mind although they belive consessions to Russia will bring concessions. Churchill, who had in turn down an invitation from Eisenhower last year because of illness, skipped a political rally last week and spent • Sunday resting at his country 5 home, Chartwell, to conserve his * energies for the trip. Churchill was making his first i trip to the United States since June ! 1954, and was carrying with him ■ a box of his favorite cigars.. » Churchill will spend three days at the White House and then stay one night at the British Embassy before leaving for New York on his return flight to London.. 17-Year-Old Peru Boy Drowned Today PERU, Ind. (UPI) — James lYalsh, 17, Peru, drowned today | in a gravel pit north of here while trying to swim 150 feet across the pit! With temperatures at mid-sum-mer levels the third day in a row in Indiana, the boy became the fifth drowning victim in the state I since last Friday. Most of the t deaths were from swimming acci- ' dents. k •

Nehru Defends His l Actions On Tibet J

! NEW DELHI (UPI) — Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru today defended his actions in the Tibetan uprising and said he was i “shocked” at the anti-Indian re- ; marks made by Communist China. “People should not be so thinskinned,” he told parliament. There might be "far-reaching consequences.” But Nehru said the Tibetan situation will not affect India’s policy of working far admission of Red China to the United Nations. As parliament debated Tibet, Communist China made one of its sharpest attacks yet on Nehru and Indian policy and accused the New Delhi government of intervening in Chinese internal affairs. Nehru said for the government to have taken any stand other . than sympathy with Tibet and the , Dalai Lama would have angered , millions of Indians and he regretted the facts have not been clearly understood by the Chinese. Nehru said the issue of Tibet was deep and serious and “therefore we must be careful what we say,” but he said the Indian gov- ' ernment was better informed than ' the people outside whose information was “based on agents” at the Indian border village of Kalimpong. Nehru said he deplored the con- •

United Press International Racial violence, marked by rapes, shootings, a murder, a lynching and assault, apparently all unconnected and unrelated, stirred both whites and Negroes in the South today. The outbreak of violence was started nine days ago in Poplarville, Miss, where an accused Negro rapist was taken bodily from his jail ceH. Police and FBI agents, working day and night, have reported no leads in die kidnaping of M. C. Parker, 23, who was scheduled to go on trial last Monday for raping a 23-year-old White mother. Following Parker's lynching, a White woman was raped and murdered at Reddell, La. Her alleged assailant, a Negro, was taken to a jail 60 miles away for safekeeping. Another white mother was raped at Quitman, Ga., Tuesday. A 17-year-old Negro was held for grand jury action in the case today. Early Saturday morning, a 191 year-old Florida A. & M. Univer-

sity Negro coed was raped and four young white men were charged with the assault. Some 750 Negro students at the state college planned a mass classroom strike today in protest against the rape. At Norfolk, Va., five Negro youths faced charges of assault on a white 20-year-old Marine. The Negroes were arrested Sunday and charged with beating the Marine in a Negro residential section. Five hundred other Marines were restricted to their barracks for a time to prevent retaliation. A chief petty officer was beaten by a similar gang of Negroes earlier Friday night. The Charlotte, N.C., Central High School canceled its juniorsenior prom and made it a private affair to exclude the school's only Negro who indicated he would attend. Officials feared an incident if the prom was held as scheduled. Nine White youths at Richmond, Va., were charged with the shotgun wounding of six Negro teenagers earlier last week. Hie Negroes were wounded by shots fired from a speeding car. 19 Accidental Deaths Recorded In State United Press International Accidental deaths soared to summer - like figures in Indiana during the weekend with at least 19 persons killed in six types of violence. There were eight deaths recorded in four traffic accidents, five deaths in three plane crashes, three drownings in separate river accidents, and one death of a pedestrian hit by a freight train. In addition, one fire death occurred and a gun accident kilted a boy.

tinuous Chinese charges and added, “Very serious charges were made in an irresponsible way by leaders whom we had considered were advanced in culture, politeness and the gentler arts of civilization. “It shocked me greatly. ‘‘They were said in excitement and I hope the excitement will pass.” Nehru said he was Justified in giving asylum to the Dalal Lama and other tibetans and denied press reports the God-King might be asked to return to Tibet. He said “I am not going to push him back and embarrass him” but "I’ll be happy if he goes back.” Today’s Tibetan debate was called despite vehement opposition by Indian communists who said a discussion of Tibet would be interference in Chinese Communist internal affairs. Fort Wayne Child Killed By Bullet „ FORT WAYNE, Ind. (UPI)— Kevin Shaughnessy, 5, Fort Wayne died today in Lutheran Hospital from a bullet wound in the head suffered Sunday as he played near the place where several other boys were target practicing. The bullet apparently richochted.

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